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- 11 Feb 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder: A Study of Equity Purchases by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES), 1995-2003
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by Sergio G. Lazzarini & Aldo Musacchio
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
financing, it is clear that these firms—typically characterized by strong growth—would be the same types of firms that brokerages could most easily expect to generate trading commissions. Q: Due to the View Details
- 2014
- Teaching Note
Microfinance Services in Rural Areas--Farmers' Self-reliance Branch of CFPA Microfinance in Shangyi County (TN)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Yang Siqun and Shen Meihua
Microfinance is introduced into China in the 1990s. It had gone through 3 phases since the beginning, namely the pilot phase when all Microfinance practices are sponsored by charity funds based on projects, the promotion phase when the government subsidized some...
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McFarlan, F. Warren, Yang Siqun, and Shen Meihua. "Microfinance Services in Rural Areas--Farmers' Self-reliance Branch of CFPA Microfinance in Shangyi County (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2014.
- 11 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
Frances Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management, is an expert in the intersection of leadership and inclusion. Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of...
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by Jen McFarland Flint
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
especially likely to meet with executives frequently. Additionally, higher turnover of a firm's stock increased the likelihood that an investor could secure a meeting with all three View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
quote, “the real world” is that we're learning the difference between talking versus connecting. I think talking is our default mode that we've had most of our lives, where we talk about logistics. And...
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- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
to the Ten Commandments, the vast majority (eight) of which dictate what thou shalt not do. Meanwhile, in virtually every other aspect of business there is a focus on what to do. Do meet sales projections....
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by Carmen Nobel
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
perspective. And one of the most important ways that we can live our mission is ensuring that we have the data to allow personalization, which I strongly believe leads to engagement and the likelihood that...
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- September 1992 (Revised March 1997)
- Case
Summit Distributors (A)
By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Amy P. Hutton
Summit Distributors was in danger of violating loan covenants because of slow economic activity and forecasted losses and was faced with a choice. Changing the inventory valuation method from LIFO to FIFO would avoid default but would require higher future income...
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Taxation;
Cost Accounting;
Cash Flow;
Interest Rates;
Economic Systems;
Borrowing and Debt;
Financial Statements;
Valuation;
Accounting Audits;
Financing and Loans;
Accounting Industry;
Legal Services Industry
Bruns, William J., Jr., and Amy P. Hutton. "Summit Distributors (A)." Harvard Business School Case 193-053, September 1992. (Revised March 1997.)
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that person. And the companies that employ large numbers of low-paid workers have a big pool of diverse talent. And rather than going out and playing the spot market for diverse talent for jobs higher up the...
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having a manager or a mentor that’s rooting for you, that’s saying to you, “you could do more. Have you thought about doing this program?” is absolutely central to the actual statistical likelihood of...
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social or soft skills that are increasingly required in high value-added roles and companies—that those are going to be hard to come by, and that running your entire logic of staffing on the basis of “I...
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in the product but invest about this whole governance and infrastructure around it.Fuller: It’s all, I think, very exciting and really does get to some of the positive attributes AI could have, in terms of...
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Dissertation topic: The invisible hand and the good of communities: How institutional logics matter in local banks
How do individuals’ backgrounds and identities influence the strategies and success of newly founded ventures? In my dissertation, I explore the impact on local bank startups of their founders’ community and financial identities. Those identities have... View Details
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call out, given those patterns? Kerr: Our first trend is that the likelihood of somebody migrating is increasing in their talent level, as we would express it. So, roughly about 2.5 percent, 3 percent, View Details
- 2006
- Other Unpublished Work
Does Competition Increase Patent Litigation? Empirical Evidence of Strategic Patenting in the Telecom Equipment Industry
By: Juan Alcacer and Rachelle C. Sampson
Anecdotal evidence suggests that patent litigation has increased in the last 20 years as firms in knowledge intensive industries use patents more frequently to protect their knowledge stocks and managers focus on extracting new revenue streams from existing patent...
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best of the in-person experience? What you want to avoid is the worst of both worlds, where I think the sort of great compromise there, the View Details
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that is as determinative of your ability to be productive and your likelihood of staying in the company as many of the other things they track...
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this—is to make the whole search, searching for opportunities that I, the individual, want to pursue as a young aspiring worker, how that matches to specific programs I can take post-secondary. What does it pay? What’s the default rate...
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- 11 Dec 2020
- News